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From: Toaster <toaster@dne3.net>
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Subject: Re: NNCPNET, the successor to UUCP networks, now available
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 11:21:36 -0400
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On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 14:58:11 -0000 (UTC)
John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote:

> On 2025-04-10, Toaster <toaster@dne3.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 03:16:06 -0000 (UTC)
> > John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > im currently enamored by plan9 tinkering at the moment, maybe nncp
> > could be used there too.
> 
> My curiosity is piqued; is there an Open Source community around
> plan9 now?  Any work actively happening?  I'm interested!

im using 9front. it's very much alive, just niche.

i love the os, networking is as easy as writing a shell script and
working with /net/tcp with text strings. /net/tls for tls. it's the
unix i always wanted. minimal. yet more powerful.

the fact that you can write a news client in like 50 lines of rc shell
script is amazing.

example of the tls device:

https://man.9front.org/3/tls

A grid of plan9 machines can just use 9p and glue all their resources
together. Grids can export to each other. You literally just mount the
other machine's stuff.

https://github.com/adventuresin9/NetworkRecipes

video demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqu7fEdvUGs

its alot of fun to mess with!